Cost Effective Fabrication of a Solar PV Panel for LED Lighting

Solar cells are very fragile so they need a encapsulant and encasing for protection and well functioning. However, this makes the panel expensive. Utilizing locally available materials and following the new cost effective lamination process, some solar PV panels are fabricated. This process is used for developing some solar panels for examples 2 W, 5 W and 15 W. These panels are sufficient for LED lighting. All panels are experimented and tested indoor as well as outdoor. Profilab software is used to log outdoor I-V curve data and flux meter is used to measure indoor LED luminance. All the functionality of PV panel like optical properties, electrical insulation, mechanical strength, physical insulation, physical protection are checked. It can be concluded that this cost effective PV panel can be locally prepared with cheaper and simpler technique and suitable for LED lighting. Keywords— encapsulation, LED light, Photovoltaic (PV) panel, polymer, Simulator.